Desperate to start school

Editorial Team / Admin · Dec 15, 2016

Have you gone to the state BON website to look for a list of approved nursing schools? That's one way to find programs. Another is to use the searches available on ACEN and CCNE websites. Once you've got the names of schools, you can do further research to determine things such as NCLEX pass rate, completion rates, etc.

Buyer beware, BSN · Dec 22, 2016

OP,

I hear in your post a certain desperation. That's the self-defeating thing. The redeeming statement is that you've seen through the debt prison that the for-profit DeVry owned Chamberlain will subject you to.

I understand that you are a bit older but you've got the trench experience to do well enough to consider the online route. Although I would not recommend doing this for the non-nurse, I think this is a good way to go for someone like you provided you have your prerequisites done at an inexpensive CC.

As you may know the fluff nursing courses can be done online but the sciences should be up close and personal in a ground school.

The whole idea is to get to RN as frugally as possible. The BON investigation of schools is OK but they are compromised by having to give a fair-shake to the for-profits (politics) who never return the favor to the screwed over students.

I suggest you look at

(collegescorecard.ed.gov) and then so forarmed give prospective schools a call.

But most important don't be desperate. This notion will be interpreted by the bad actors in education as you having no discernment ability and will accept any pile of offal they will gleefully serve up.

Any RN degree that costs too much is not worth the price of admission and renders the desperate and impatient that much more so